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After serving more than a year as executive vice president and chief operating officer, the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare board has approved Michael Ugwueke as president and COO of parent company Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, as well as president and CEO of Methodist Healthcare Memphis Hospitals (MHMH).
MHMH includes the five Memphis hospitals licensed as one, including Methodist Germantown Hospital, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Methodist North Hospital, Methodist South Hospital and Methodist University Hospital. The move, effective May 1, is designed to help Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare become a stronger integrated system. Ugwueke will be responsible for operations across the system.
Navigating the security process at Memphis International Airport could get a little easier for some passengers.
The Transportation Security Administration opened an application site at Memphis International Friday, April 11, for TSA PreCheck, an expedited screening program that allows travelers to leave on their shoes, light outerwear and belts, keep their laptops in cases and keep compliant liquids and gels in a carryon bag. TSA is currently in the process of expanding to more than 300 application centers across the country.
U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents will be allowed to go through a pre-enrollment process online at tsa.gov/tsa-precheck, make an appointment and complete their enrollment at the application center to verify their identity and provide documentation to confirm their citizenship or immigration status, and to provide fingerprints.
The application center will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applicants with questions can contact the Universal Enrollment Call Center at 855-347-8371 Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
In other airport news, the Airport Authority on Thursday awarded a $517,356 contract to Belz Construction Services LLC to relocate a small TSA office as part of the airport's concourse modernization plan. Belz will build a 3,550-square-foot office for the TSA in a space between Concourses A and B.
Under the downsizing plan the airport is pursuing, Concourse B will be improved while excess gates in Concourses A and C will be razed.
For the second year in a row, the Indie Memphis Film Festival has been named to MovieMaker magazine's 2014 list of "Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee."
The list will be in the spring issue on newsstands April 22.
The dates for this year's Indie Memphis festival are Oct. 30 through Nov. 2. The event is marking its 17th anniversary this year and is expanding its footprint with the addition of the new Hattiloo Theatre, scheduled to open in midsummer.
If the end of tax season isn't worth celebrating, then what is?
The RISE Foundation is taking advantage of this sentiment with a "Friendraiser" at Wiseacre Brewing Co. on April 16.
The event runs from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the brewery, 2783 Broad Ave. Party admission of $20 includes two drink tickets, hors d'oeuvres, a souvenir coaster and a chance to learn more about RISE, a Memphis-based nonprofit that aims to help low-income residents out of poverty.
The Tennessee House has approved the state's $32.4 billion spending plan for the budget year beginning in July.
The measure was approved 68-27 on Thursday. The Senate was scheduled to vote on the plan later in the day.
The legislation removes previously planned salary increases for teachers and state employees to make up for flagging state revenue collections.
Both Democrats and Republicans presented proposals to give teachers and state employees one-time bonuses, but all those amendments failed.
Last year, Gov. Bill Haslam pledged to improve the salaries of the state's teachers. He says he regrets not being able to offer raises next year, but remains committed to increasing their pay.
Lawmakers are required by the state constitution to pass a balanced budget each year.
Ward Road between Garnet and Old Millington roads will close April 28 to through traffic for a year as county work crews replace the Ward Road bridge over Big Creek in north Shelby County.
Dement Construction Co. LLC is the contractor for the $1.3 million project funded by the state as well as state gasoline tax money.
The contract was approved in December by the Shelby County Commission.
Wink Spalon, a new salon offering semi-permanent and temporary lash extensions, is holding a ribbon cutting ceremony April 11.
The "spalon" is located at 764 Brookhaven Circle. The ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m., with a grand opening event to follow. Attendees will be able to tour Wink Spalon, meet owner Chandra Wilson and learn about the services offered.
The Tigers football team's spring practice will culminate with the Blue-Gray Spring Game Friday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
Admission to the game is free.
Tailgate activities on Tiger Lane will begin at 5 p.m. and continue until kickoff. The team will hold its traditional Tiger Walk through Tiger Lane at 6 p.m.
The Tennessee Senate has voted to overrule the sponsor of a bill that originally sought to require the phrase "In God We Trust" to be painted behind the speaker's podiums in the state Capitol.
Republican Sen. Stacey Campfield of Knoxville urged the chamber to reject House changes to the bill that would instead instruct the State Capitol Commission to study having the phrase painted in the tunnel connecting the building to the Legislative Plaza.
But the Republican-controlled chamber voted 19-8 against Campfield's motion, which had the effect of agreeing to the House version of the bill and sending it to Gov. Bill Haslam's desk.
Campfield was visibly upset by the chamber's action, and complained off the microphone that one GOP colleague was "messing" with his bill.
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in almost seven years, falling 32,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 300,000.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, fell 4,750 to 316,250.
Fewer Americans sought benefits last week than at any point since the Great Recession began at the end of 2007. Applications are at their lowest level since May of that year.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. The decrease suggests that employers expect stronger economic growth in the coming months and are holding onto their workers.
Collierville-based Landmark Community Bank has completed acquisitions of Cadence Bank branches in Franklin and Brentwood.
As part of the deal, Landmark assumed almost $30 million in deposits and accrued interest and bought about $4.6 million in loans and other assets. Cadence depositors became Landmark customers effective March 24.
Commenting on the deal, Landmark chairman James Farrell said his bank is excited about the possibilities associated with expanding into two dynamic Middle Tennessee markets.
The American Institute of Architects Memphis is preparing to host its annual Celebration of Architecture Gala.
This year's event to celebrate the built environment and salute local designers will be held in the Tower Center at Clark Tower. The event includes honoring the best of Memphis architects with the 2014 Design Awards.
The April 26 event kicks off at 6 p.m., and the awards ceremony begins at 8 p.m. General admission tickets are $60, and associate AIA and student tickets are $35.
For more information, visit aiamemphis.org or call 525-3818.
The Downtown Memphis Commission would continue to oversee day-to-day management of the Beale Street entertainment district for the rest of 2014, with a new five-to-seven member board forming later this year to oversee the hiring of a private management firm to run the district in the future.
That is the tentative proposal Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. outlined in an email to Memphis City Council members this week.
The council would approve any structure for the future oversight of the district.
The board Wharton outlined would include at least one seat each for the council, the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Beale Street Merchants Association and the Downtown Memphis Commission.
The Downtown Memphis Commission began running the district's daily operations for the city with the new year, using services from various city divisions.
The Neuroscience Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host a symposium on post-traumatic stress disorder April 24.
The symposium will run from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will be held in Room A204 in the General Education Building, 8 S. Dunlap St., on the UTHSC campus.
While PTSD is often associated with the aftermath of war, it can result from a variety of traumatic events, including rape, child abuse, car accidents, natural disasters and traumatic brain injury.
Keynote speakers are Dr. Kerry J. Ressler of Emory University School of Medicine and Dr. Jeffrey J. Bazarian of the University of Rochester Medical Center.
The event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided. Visit uthsc.edu/neuroscience/symposia.php to register.
University of Memphis women's basketball coach Melissa McFerrin will hold summer basketball camps for girls in third through ninth grades.
The camps begin with a one-day Elite Camp on June 18 for high school girls entering ninth to 12th grade. The Elite Camp will be held at the Larry Finch Center and University of Memphis Student Recreation and Fitness Center.
A team camp will be held June 19 and is for any team 13U or older (varsity, junior varsity, AAU, church, youth, etc.). The Team Camp has a three-game guarantee.
Questions about either camp can be mailed to the U of M coaching staff at firstname.lastname@example.com.
There will also be day camps from June 23-26 for girls entering third through ninth grades. The day camps will be held at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.
Online registration for all camps is available at coachmcferrin.com.
Supporters of a watered-down version of Gov. Bill Haslam's anti-methamphetamine legislation approved by the House on Wednesday believe it will help in the fight against the drug's production across the state, even though it's not as tough as they would like.
The House overwhelmingly voted 80-17 in favor of the proposal that would set an annual cap of 150 days' worth of allergy and cold medicines such as Sudafed that could be bought without a prescription. Over-the-counter remedies that include pseudoephedrine are abused by people who make methamphetamine with the ingredient.
The House version is double the amount envisioned under Haslam's previous proposal that has been adopted in the Senate.
The Republican governor's original proposal would have established a monthly limit of 2.4 grams of pseudoephedrine, or a 10-day maximum dose, before requiring a pharmacist to authorize another 10 days' worth before getting a doctor's prescription.
Facing resistance over that measure, the governor later removed the pharmacist element, and instead proposed a 4.8-gram month maximum and an annual cap of 14.4 grams. That proposal was adopted in the Senate. The House version sets a 5.8-gram monthly cap and annual limit of 28.8 grams.
House lawmakers on Wednesday voted against an amendment to return the legislation to the governor's proposal.
Rep. G.A. Hardaway said he opposed the governor's version because of the hardships it would place on people who want to purchase the medicines legally, like some seniors who would be forced to get transportation to try to see a doctor.
Tennessee's annual spending plan is headed to a full House vote.
The House Finance Committee approved the measure on a voice vote Tuesday night. The Senate is hoping to also take up the legislation this week.
Gov. Bill Haslam has said planned increases in higher education funding and pay raises for teachers and state employees will have to be abandoned to balance the books.
The Republican governor said an ongoing decline in revenue collections is the main reason for not being able to give the increases and raises.
House Democratic Leader Craig Fitzhugh of Ripley proposed an amendment in the House Finance Committee Tuesday night to take money from reserves to give a one-time bonus to state employees and teachers, but the measure failed.
A federal panel has consolidated seven lawsuits against Pilot Flying J, the truck stop company owned by the family of Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. The suits claims Pilot cheated trucking companies out of promised rebates and discounts.
Knoxville-based Pilot already paid $85 million to 5,500 customers in a November class-action settlement of similar claims.
Attorneys for the seven companies with federal suits pending against Pilot had argued against consolidation, saying there were too few suits to make it necessary.
But the federal Panel of Multidistrict Litigation ruled Monday to consolidate in Kentucky's eastern district, headquarted in Lexington. The panel noted that another 50 companies opted out of the settlement and could still sue.
A federal investigation of the nation's largest diesel retailer is ongoing.
Memphis-based Evolve Bank & Trust has added John Copeland as its new chief financial officer.
Copeland has 39 years of banking experience in a range of management positions that includes experience in audit, treasury management, controllership, financial management and mergers and acquisitions.
For the last decade, he's worked as the CFO at M&F Bank.
Gov. Bill Haslam's signature proposal to create a program that would cover a full ride at two-year colleges for any high school graduate was scheduled to be heard by a key legislative committee on Tuesday.
Called "Tennessee Promise," the plan is on the calendar of the Senate Finance Committee.
It's a cornerstone of Haslam's "Drive to 55" campaign to improve the state's graduation rates from the current 32 percent to 55 percent by 2025 to help improve overall job qualifications and attract employers to the state.
Haslam wants to pay for the program by using $300 million in excess lottery reserve funds and join it with a $47 million endowment.
However, one of the main concerns of higher education officials and lawmakers is making sure the plan is adequately funded.
U.S. employers posted more job openings in February, a sign that hiring will likely improve in the months ahead.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that employers advertised 4.2 million job openings, up 7.7 percent from January. That's the highest number of postings since January 2008, when the Great Recession was just beginning and the economy had yet to suffer the full shock of the downturn.
There are roughly 2.5 unemployed Americans for each open job, the report shows. That average has slowly been approaching the 2 to 1 ratio is typical of healthier economies, after peaking at 6.7 unemployed people for each available job in July 2009, just after the recession ended.
Hiring has accelerated over the past two months after a winter slowdown. After factoring in job losses, employers added 192,000 jobs in March and 197,000 in February, the government said last Friday.
That was significantly higher than in December and January, when snowstorms reduced job growth. The unemployment rate has stayed at 6.7 percent for the past two months.
Tuesday's government report, known as the Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, offers a more complete picture of the job market. It includes additional data on hiring and the number of people quitting or being laid off.
Total hiring rose 1.5 percent to 4.6 million in February. That's still less than a healthy job market, where around 5 million people are hired each month.
The number of people who quit their jobs rose slightly last month, the report said, while layoffs declined.
The additional data in the JOLTs report illustrates how much turnover is happening in the job market. Stronger job markets usually include a greater amount of churn, with more people quitting and greater overall hiring.
Drivers will get the slightest of breaks on gasoline prices this summer, according to the Energy Department.
The national average price is forecast to fall – by just one cent – to $3.57 per gallon between April and September, the months when Americans do most of their driving.
Still, that would be the lowest average since 2010. For the year, the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration expects gasoline to average $3.45 per gallon, down from $3.51 last year and also the lowest since 2010.
World demand for oil is growing, but supplies are growing faster than demand, thanks to higher production in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. That will keep a lid on the price of crude and gasoline.
The price of Brent crude, a benchmark used to price oil used by many U.S. refineries and the most important factor in gasoline prices, is forecast to fall 4 percent this year.
The Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Allied Health Sciences will be realigned under the UTHSC College of Dentistry.
By July 1, the seven full-time faculty, 16 adjunct faculty and four staff members of the department will relocate across campus from their 930 Madison Ave. offices to the Dunn Dental Building at 875 Union Ave. The leadership of the dental hygiene program will remain in place, reporting to Dr. John D. Seeberg, assistant dean for Clinical Affairs in the College of Dentistry.
Every year, UTHSC dental hygiene students contribute 2,300 hours of services and care to underserved children through the Urban Smiles initiative. Founded in 1926, the department is one of the earliest units established in the country to teach dental hygiene. In 2004, the department developed the first Master of Dental Hygiene program, the only online graduate program curriculum dedicated to preparing dental hygienists to serve as faculty and educational administrators.
Those attending the April 13 Memfeast next to the Broad Avenue Water Tower, 2532 Broad Ave., will vote on the coming redesign of the arts district icon.
The dinner, being held on the loading dock by the water tower and prepared by chef Miles McMath, will feature live performances as well as presentations by the artists who are finalists for the tower redesign.
At the end of the event, which is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., participants will vote to select the winning project.
For more information, visit urbanartcommission.org/news or call 552-3934.
Memphis-based First Tennessee Bank has expanded to Houston.
The company has tapped longtime Houston banker Gary Olander to be its Houston market president. He joined First Tennessee March 25 and is building a team of top Houston bankers for First Tennessee.
Already, First Tennessee bankers have built strong relationships with several large Houston businesses, the company said.
Olander said he liked First Tennessee's model of hiring experienced local bankers rather than buying banks to fuel an expansion.
The day after the filing deadline for the August state and federal primaries, Democratic state Sen. Reginald Tate became an uncontested incumbent, winning another four-year term representing District 33.
Possible primary challenger E. Jefferson Jones disappeared from the Shelby County Election Commission's listing of contenders Friday, April 4, the day after the filing deadline. Jones' bid to run for a County Commission seat was derailed last month when the election commission ruled that she didn't live in the district.
Meanwhile, former Shelby County Commissioner George Flinn's petition to run in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate was reviewed and certified in Nashville the day after the filing deadline. He is one of eight challengers in the August GOP primary to incumbent U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander.
In other post-filing deadline action, Cookie Drake's petition to run for District 6 on the Shelby County Schools board was disqualified after election commission staffers examined the signatures on her petition. And David Winston's petition was accepted in the District 5 school board race that matches Winston against former Memphis City Council member Scott McCormick.
Gov. Bill Haslam and Transportation Commissioner John Schroer have released the state's three-year, $1.5 billion transportation program.
The Haslam administration said the plan unveiled Thursday takes a conservative approach because of uncertainty over future federal transit funding. It contains no money to pay for early engineering work on new projects.
The spending plan includes $600 million to maintain, replace or repair roads and bridges around the state. It also envisions interstate projects, including truck climbing lanes, interchanges and capacity expansion on major routes.
The three-year program runs from 2015 to 2017.
About half of the state's transportation budget comes from the federal government, while most of the rest is generated from the state's tax on gasoline.
Alexander Has $3.1 Million For Senate Campaign
Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander raised $614,000 in the first quarter, leaving him with $3.1 million on hand for his bid for a third term.
Alexander said he received formal notification on Thursday that he has qualified for the Aug. 7 primary. His eight opponents in the GOP nomination contest include state Rep. Joe Carr of Murfreesboro and former Shelby County Commissioner George Flinn.
Four candidates have filed to run for the Democratic nomination, including Knoxville attorneys Gordon Ball and Terry Adams, and Gary Davis and Larry Crim of Nashville.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has three challengers, including perennial candidate Basil Marceaux and Mark "Coonrippy" Brown, who is angry at the state for confiscating his pet raccoon.
Three million Americans signed up for Medicaid under President Barack Obama's new health care law as of the end of February, the administration said Friday, offering its first full accounting of how much the safety-net health program has grown since implementation of the law.
Many were newly eligible because of the law's Medicaid expansion, while others already eligible but not yet enrolled came forward due to publicity around the law and its requirement for individuals to carry insurance or risk paying a fine, analysts said. It brings to around 62 million the total number of people covered under Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The 3 million figure is incomplete because a handful of states didn't report their numbers, and it doesn't include sign-ups in March.
But together with the administration's announcement earlier this week that more than 7 million Americans had signed up for private insurance through the law's new online marketplaces, it allows administration officials to boast that the nation's new health care program has already covered 10 million uninsured Americans even in the face of unflagging Republican opposition.
About half the states have accepted a Medicaid expansion in the health law, and Sebelius said the administration would continue to work to get more states on board.
And although open enrollment just ended for the private health plans offered through the health law's online exchanges, people can sign up for Medicaid anytime.
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How to quit texting and driving
Most Americans know texting and driving is dangerous but it continues to be a problem, especially for young drivers. While 97 percent of teens agree that texting and driving is dangerous, 43 percent still admitted to continuing to do it, according to a recent survey.
The 2012 AT&T survey of teen drivers also found 75 percent of teens say texting while driving is common among their friends and the majority of respondents said they have texted when stopped at a red light and often glance at their phones while driving. While teens might be the worst offenders when it comes to texting and driving, plenty of adults are guilty too. As the evidence continues to mount concerning the dangers of texting while driving, 39 states have made it illegal. Whether it's legal or not in your state, here are three good reasons to quit once and for all:
- Texting drivers are 23 times more likely to be in an accident, according to Virginia Tech Transportation Institute research.
- Texting while driving is distracted driving. Distracted driving is a factor in 15 to 25 percent of all crashes, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.
- Each day, an average of more than 15 people are killed in crashes that result from distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
How to stop texting while driving
To help people break the perilous habit of texting and driving, technology companies are coming up with unique and practical solutions for drivers. For instance, Xperia SmartTags by Sony give you the ability to turn off all distractions from your smartphone with a simple touch. These small tags can be put on a dashboard or a set of car keys and allow you to change your phone's settings for driving by simply touching your NFC-enabled smartphone to the tag.
Smartphone applications can make this process even easier. When paired with AT&T's free Drive Mode app, you can automatically disable your phone's texting and calling capability. The app can also be programmed to include an automatic message that's sent to anyone who texts you while you're behind the wheel, letting that person know that you'll respond when you are finished driving. You can program this app to run when you tap your phone to your SmartTag, while also setting your phone up to automatically run GPS programs and engage your car's Bluetooth system for both safety and convenience.
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I just can't believe that Framingham is poised to deny the McDonald's permit for Route 9 on the Southboro line.
You know, for years Rick has been talking about economic development inFramingham, and touting the merits of biotech, compounding pharmacies notwithstanding. The point that Rick misses is that economic development is a two prong issue. First, it provides flashy new buildings. But of equal import, it has to be in the right place to stimulate economic development. Biotech buildings on New York Avenue don't create jobs as much as they shuffle them around. And biotech jobs tucked away on New York Avenue doesn't create street life.
I used to have my office on 1661 Worcester Road, back in the old days. If you wanted a cup of coffee or a donut, you had to risk your life crossing Route 9. I would occasionally take clients to Tin Alley Grill or whatever that thing was called. We picked that site for our office because many of my clients came from out of town and were staying at the hotel. Increasingly, they complained that there was nothing to do the moment they walked out of the hotel. So I moved my office to another site in Framingham. Once again, if I wanted to do the death dash across Route 30, there were limited food options amongst the gas stations and traffic. But my new office was in close proximity to a hotel and to transport to the airport. But in the past four years, that site went into a death spiral, as Framingham denied permit after permit for anything that would bring life to our little corner. When Bickford's closed, my clients threw up their hands, and said that the location was as bad as the other.
I have just moved my physical office in Massachusetts, such as I have one, to an urban village outside of Framingham. Tough choice to leave Framingham, but no choice. Framingham increasingly has a reputation as an anti-business community, with little or no considered plan for development. Our new bricks and mortar office is flex space in a mill building. I walk out my door to restaurants, useful shops (dry cleaners, small supermarket, barber shop, hardware store, liquor store). There are a variety of people here, in all walks of life and employment. Commuter rail is across the street. My commute has gone from a 45 minute drive through increasingly worsening traffic to a pleasant 20 minute walk. Yes, walk. And while we don't have a Bickford's here, we have everything else you could possibly want. I also have better infrastructure all around. This is new urbanism at its best.
Back to McDonalds. The Route 9 gateway to Framingham is the worst example of blight in MetroWest. A number of years ago, I proposed carving "Welcome to Framingham-Heart of Metrowest" on the new overpass over Route 9, marking the gateway to the town. Today, you know you've left Southboro and entered Framingham because the neighborhood quality plummets. I don't like McDonalds, and I don't go there. But it is an anchor. A start. Something. A place people who work in the area could walk through. Probably the first step in redeveloping the area. Tax dollars. I made a last ditch analysis of buying the Rugg Gates House and moving the house to the site of Tin Alley Grill and then adding some additional development behind it. When I spoke to banks and other developers, I confirmed what I sort of knew–no one wants to develop anything in that area. Regardless of Rick's treasured bio tech and Staples and Bose, this area is still just a suburban office park surrounded by highways and oceans of cars. Something has to give, and McDonald's wants to take the first step.
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Obama Strikes Back with a Left to the Chin: The Second Debate as Political Slugfest
I miss the days when heavyweight boxing loomed large over the American cultural landscape. The great champs were men of mythic stature — Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano and (most mythic of all) Muhammad Ali. Then the sport deteriorated like a jack o' lantern two weeks after Halloween.
The hulking, ear-biting Mike Tyson is the last heavyweight champ whose face I can remember. An upstart named Evander Holyfield followed him, and I couldn't name you a single one of Holyfield's heirs. The sport has trailed off into insignificance, replaced by video games, reality TV and presidential debates.
Yes, our presidential debates are the next-best thing to the heavyweight bouts of yore. Especially the town hall debates, which allow the candidates to get up from their seats, move around and invade each other's private space.
The defending champ and his Republican challenger met this past Tuesday for the second in a best-of-three contest. Both men entered the ring in fighting trim: tall, lean and energized… not an ounce of flab around the waist or skull, boyish hairlines intact. Romney at 65 was looking more unnaturally youthful than his 51-year-old rival, whose arduous three-plus years in the White House have taken a visible toll.
Obama, recovering from his lethargic TKO loss in the first debate, needed to show the world that he could still catch fire and pack a well-aimed punch. The Republican challenger, who had the momentum along with a paper-thin edge in the polls, simply needed to look like a champ while successfully dodging and weaving in the ring.
Romney came out of his corner in response to a college student who wondered aloud if he'd ever find a job. The Marauding Mormon conveyed friendly concern and instantly promised him gainful employment. Romney was being Romney: the smooth, upbeat, ideologically elusive plutocrat who's gallantly forcing himself to sympathize with ordinary middle-class Americans.
Now it was Obama's turn: the president surprised the doubters with a show of renewed moxie. Energized, intense and combative, he quickly brandished his own credentials as a Certified Friend of the Middle Class and repeatedly put his opponent on the defensive. Obama jabbed Romney again and again, knocking his opponent's faith in "top-down economics"… his mysterious promise to roll back the deficit while cutting taxes ("the math doesn't add up")… his flip-flopping on illegal immigrants and Obamacare… his haste to make political hay out of the Libya consulate attack… his fealty to the GOP's right-wing fringe in general and the National Rifle Association in particular.
But despite his adroit maneuvers, Obama never put his opponent away with a decisive knockout punch. Romney countered with jabs of his own: Obama's broken promises, lingering recession, billowing deficit, sluggishness in drilling for oil, mishandling of Libya, prohibitive taxes on American companies. But again, nothing fatal. Each attempted to paint himself as a moderate while his opponent quickly defaced the self-portrait.
Both men, masters of self-control under less stressful circumstances, began to frazzle visibly midway through the bout. Romney grew prickly and impatient; the president quietly fumed and sulked. But neither man collapsed. Each danced defiantly onto the other's turf. Both abused their allotted time slots; both wrangled with the referee, CNN's Candy Crowley, she of the feisty humor and tanklike physique –and no pushover in the ring.
All the while, often nervous and fumbling, the hand-picked inquisitors — a gathering of undecided, mostly white Long Island voters — tried to extract straightforward answers from the two combatants. Not much luck there. In the end, nobody asked the most important question of all: What will you do to stop lobbyists and big-money interests from buying our elected representatives? If I had been in the audience, that's the question I would have asked… though it might not have made it past the censors.
The most decisive action came late in the match. In response to an audience member's challenge for Romney to differentiate himself from the unfortunate George W. Bush, the Mittster appropriately cited his faith in small business (as opposed to big corporations) as the engine of growth and progress. Obama also drew a contrast between the two Republicans — and scored a minor coup by providing evidence that Bush the Younger was actually more liberal than the current GOP nominee! Then, in his closing statement, the president finally pulled Romney's infamous "47%" remark out of his hat.
The victor: Obama on points — not a knockout — not even a TKO — but still an encouraging turnaround for the embattled chief executive.
It strikes me as odd and unseemly that our presidential elections increasingly hinge on the combatants' skill in the debating ring. Debates favor quickness, glibness, style and maneuverability over substance and character. Not exactly the kind of screening process we need to recognize a great leader… but one that's suited to a nation in thrall to pop culture and its mandatory slickness.
George Washington, perhaps the single most magnificent character to emerge from the entire 400-year American pageant, wouldn't have stood a chance in a televised debate. A reluctant speaker, starchy and slow of wit, he would have sputtered and mumbled through his grotesque false teeth while a Romney or an Obama shredded him alive. But after all, folks, that's show business.
Anonymous permalinkOctober 19, 2012 9:13 am
Great analysis but I don't think you took it far enough. I looked at Romney and saw the bully he was as a kid. I could imagine him hacking off that poor boy's hair in prep school. He still says he doesn't remember that instance and if he doesn't, well, it's probably because he behaved like a bully so frequently he forgot his faceless victims. What an ugly side to present to the world. Obama fought back but both looked less Presidential by the end. Obama's remarks about Libya elevated his Presidential creed. But….what must the world think of our politics to see adults behaving so badly? And…at the end of the day what will it matter? Romney will prepare a plan to "sell" to his largest base (right wing) no matter how moderate he was in the past and Obama will stay the course. He has taken us further then expected in such a historical world wide recession/depression while trying to protect those hit hardest. We are in better shape then most foreign countries but the Right Wing will never give him credit for that.
October 20, 2012 10:12 am
Yes, and Obama ate dog, hung around with communists, and terrorists, and radicals,
And wasn't "Stay the course" Bush's line ? I guess we are now channeling Bush I instead of Bush II.
As to the recession please check out the emerging scholarship.
This is not the worst recession since the great depression, but it is proving to be the longest. There is no special "financial crisis" multiplier. The norm (like ALWAYS) is the deeper the recession the stronger and quicker the recovery.
We were well into a weak recovery in 2010. It has withered. Obama owns this.
Further this recession will provide new data further bolstering the argument that government efforts to mitigate economic problems end up exacerbating them.
October 20, 2012 9:31 pm
asmith, I agree that it is the longest recession in terms of mental agony in quite a while.
If Obama does win, he can only be blamed for and also given credit to those things that happen in his second term.
I just hope that he focuses on real issues that effect the majority of Americans rather than the 23-40 million that don't have healthcare.
October 19, 2012 11:18 am
Rick, I must admit a tried to watch, told myself I needed to see what everyone would be talking about the next day. Watched until the first energy question and then when the argueing started about who was or was not telling the truth, it was like watching Hardball or Hannity with two guest with opposing views.
I had something much more interesting to watch. The ALCS. Much more relaxing. And talking to my two grown daughters in their late 20's, they too switched the channel when all the bickering started. They related it to kids fighting over game rules in the back yard.
These are not debates. They are meetings where two people can tell the public anything they want to tell them, no matter if it is true or not and most people will beleive what they hear. "It has to be true, its on TV".
RP permalinkOctober 19, 2012 6:57 pm
Proclaiming a debate that was at best a draw for him, a victory for Obama just because, is pretty lame. I don't recall a single point he made that wasn't a misrepresentation or an evasion of reality. The arguments are always about the relative merits of Romney's plans for dealing with a myriad of problems, such as Medicare, social security, flight of American capital and jobs to foreign shores, and the threats of China and global jihad on a number of levels. Obama and the dems haven't proposed solutions to any of these issues. Obama presents as if he hasn't been in charge for four years–as if he and Romney are both candidates for the same empty chair. Actually, that is close to the truth.
October 20, 2012 9:41 pm
My point to this RP is that Obama had four years to get things into Congress for a vote irregardless if it passed. Obama could of at least said he tried.
This is failure as a President nothing more or less.
If you have an Agenda you push it through foremost, thus healthcare. Success!!! Then what???nothing??? What about everything else??
He had a guaranteed four years to do his "make or break" pledges. Now it is time to see someone else take a swing.
They should of put another Democrat up to run for President instead of Obama. Obama isn't the only Democrat with ideas.
October 20, 2012 11:36 pm
pearows, how interesting how the comments you heard at your social gathering is much like the comments I hear from my young daughters (27 and 29), along with friends when I happen to be at a social gathering they might have with fmaily and friends. My daughters are extremely conservative when it comes to money and government spending, but they are extremely liberal when it comes to abortion, gay rights, immigration rights for kids brought into the country at a very youngs age and other social issues. Many of these younger folk that believe in these positions have stated that they are voting for Obama because they beleive it more important to keep the government out of their personal lives and values than the fiscal problems that may develop from a continued Obama administration.
I believe Romney would be an overwhelming favorite and a landslide victor if it were not for the positions taken on social issues by the republican party in many elections prior to this presidential election.
October 20, 2012 10:02 pm
Rick, I like your take statement on both the candidates trying to act like "moderates" because that is what a "moderate" is….a person who stays in the center till they decide to take sides.
I found these debates to be entertaining. They make jabs like boxing. they sound like professional salesmen, they make promises like dictators, and they promote agendas based on their party and the people who fund their campaigns.
The reality is that it caters to it's base and promotes growth to its base by demagoguery.
I find it unrealistic and uncouth.
What I have noticed in this election is the Libertarian Party has pushed Ron Paul and his anarchists to the side to take a more "Centrist" view. Especially after watching Jim Gray's video. Jim is running as the VP on the Libertarian ticket.
As a Centrist, I do not lean on what the Government expects me to do or believe, but what I expect from my Government.
I am therefore inclined to vote Libertarian as Pres, and VP, Democrat as Senate, and Republican as House of Representatives.
In short everyone has the option to make a difference. It is well balanced.
Gook Luck to the winners!!
October 20, 2012 10:03 pm
This is also Virginia. Obama will have to do without me this time.
Rabbit permalinkOctober 22, 2012 11:57 am
A great piece of writing Rick, one of your very best. There ought to be a paying gig in that level of commentary. In truth, I did not watch the debate but read about it afterwards.
For my one post on this topic I choose to post this piece from the Washington Post by Bob Dole, who I have always greatly admired, and never more than after reading this essay. It describes the world I grew up in and the world I still wistfully believe in in which the vast majority of people considered that the US government was by and large a necessary force for good. I think the passing of that era (which was certainly not as pretty as my nostalgia makes it) has much to do with the passing of the WWII "greatest generation" as leaders. Perish the thought, but do we need to survive WWIII before we can remember that we are all in this together and that any society has its common organ, government, at its center, which can be disagreed with, questioned, fought with bitterly at times but not demonized in its very essence?
"George McGovern, the man who never gave up
By Bob Dole, Published: October 21
Bob Dole, a Republican from Kansas, was the Senate majority leader from 1985 to 1987 and 1995 to 1996 and the Republican nominee for president in 1996.
When I learned that George McGovern was nearing the end of his remarkable life, I couldn't help but think back to the day in June 1993 when both of us attended the funeral of former first lady Pat Nixon, in Yorba Linda, Calif. After the service, George was asked by a reporter why he should honor the wife of the man whose alleged dirty tricks had kept him out of the White House. He replied, "You can't keep on campaigning forever."
That classy remark was typical of George, a true gentleman who was one of the finest public servants I had the privilege to know.
George McGovern (1922-2012): Former U.S. senator George McGovern, remembered for his staunch opposition to the Vietnam War and his lopsided loss to Richard M. Nixon in the 1972 presidential election but also for his impact on the Democratic Party, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 90.
I am sure there are some who were surprised by the long friendship that George and I shared. After all, before his death this weekend at age 90, he was a proud and unapologetic liberal Democrat and I am a lifelong Republican. As chairman of the Republican Party, I did what I could to ensure the defeat of his 1972 run for the White House. When the election was over, however, George and I knew that we couldn't keep on campaigning forever. We also knew that what we had in common was far more important than our different political philosophies.
Both of us were guided by the values we learned growing up in the plains of the Midwest — he in Mitchell, S.D., and me in Russell, Kan. Our lives were also transformed by the experience of wearing the uniform of our country during World War II.
We would both come to understand that our most important commonality — the one that would unite us during and after our service on Capitol Hill — was our shared desire to eliminate hunger in this country and around the world. As colleagues in the 1970s on the Senate Hunger and Human Needs Committee, we worked together to reform the Food Stamp Program, expand the domestic school lunch program and establish the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
More than a quarter-century later, with political ambitions long behind us, we joined together again. Soon after President Bill Clinton named George ambassador to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in 1998, he called to ask for my help in strengthening global school feeding, nutrition and education programs. We jointly proposed a program to provide poor children with meals at schools in countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In 2000, President Clinton authorized a two-year pilot program based on our proposal, and in 2002, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. Since its inception, the program has provided meals to 22 million children in 41 countries.
In recent years, George and I had several occasions to get together and reflect on our lives, our political careers and our respective presidential campaigns. No matter how many times we replayed it, he never did defeat President Nixon and I never did defeat Bill Clinton. We agreed, however, that the greatest of life's blessings cannot be counted in electoral votes.
In 2008, George and I were humbled to be named the co-recipients of the World Food Prize. As we were called on stage to accept the award, we once again reached across the aisle, walking to the podium literally arm-in-arm. I began my acceptance remarks by saying that "The good news is that we finally won something. It proves that you should never give up."
There can be no doubt that throughout his half-century career in the public arena, George McGovern never gave up on his principles or in his determination to call our nation to a higher plain. America and the world are for the better because of him.
October 22, 2012 7:52 pm
George McGovern deserves a great deal of respect. He was openly honest about who he was. Though certainly far left of center, he was not actually a proponent of
big government, and he became far less so as he grew older.
Vole permalinkOctober 22, 2012 2:01 pm
Rabbit may have been pointing out that Bob Dole, the old-school GOP stalwart, sounds positively progressive compared to the present incarnation of the GOP, Mitt Romney possibly excepted. The connection to the second debate could be that eternal question, is Romney a Dole-Lugar- Simpson type of Republican, i.e., a progressive according to Libertarian mythology.
Priscilla permalinkOctober 22, 2012 6:29 pm
Gotcha. It's a valid point, Rab/Vole/Mole . But interesting how there is so little handwringing over Obama's total refusal to be a Clinton-type Democrat and propose solutions that might actually have a chance of getting passed. It's always the Repubs who are supposed to compromise………I think that might have something to do with tea party intransigence.
October 23, 2012 11:46 am
Rick, there is one huge difference between Clinton and Obama. How many times did Clinton meet or talk with Gingrich and republican leadership to achieve some of his agenda, compared to Obama talking with Boehner and Republican leadership. Dang. Obama doesn't even meet with the Democratic leadership in congress for many reports I read.
Thjat is the difference between being a leader and just someone filling the leather chair in the oval office.
October 22, 2012 6:36 pm
I do not know what the american people would do confronted with a rational discussion of trade and China.
Here is GMU Economist Don Boudreaux
I think he makes an excellent case.
Regardless who ever is elected is stuck with the rhetoric they used to do so.
Both Romney and Obama have commited us to future policies with respect to China that are 180 degrees wrong. That will harm us and Harm them.
One of Boudreaux's better points that politicians ignore and the general population never hears, is that A trade deficit AUTOMATICALY means an approximately equal increase in foreign investment.
We went through all this Trade crap with Japan Inc. two decades ago. Where are Toyota's and Honda's made today ? How well is Japan doing ?
If Japan was engaged in the purportedly evil trade practices that Trade lunatics claimed – then what we see today is the consequence. A damaged Japanese economy, with massive Japanese investment in the US that has created jobs and wealth here.
If that is the consequences of unfair trade practices (and it is) – then please let china victimize us even fiurther.
Worse still NONE of this is new. NONE is some secret.
Adam Smith tapped into it in The Wealth of Nations, and Bastiat settled it a generation later. Free trade is always a win-win. Unfree trade shifts the balance away from the party seeking advantage.
You may be right that Romney can not successfully politically make that argument. But I think I have more confidence in people than you do.
On Issues – Gary Johnson still kills Romney/Obama in polls.
Through most of the GOP Primary Ron Paul faired as well or better than Romney against Obama, and was often ahead. Paul has enormous negatives. His main positive is a willingness to tell the truth as he sees it regardless of the political consequenses – and people did respond to that.
RP permalinkOctober 22, 2012 8:01 pm
Asmith-I disagree with your equating our trade deficit with China to the previous one with Japan. Although a trade deficit CAN create an approximately equal increase in foreign investment, that doesn't mean their investment will be in the US. Though many prefer to keep their heads buried in the sand and hope for the best, China's Communist government remains hostile to us. Much of the influx of capital has been spent on tying up natural resources around the globe, and extensive expansion of their capabilities in cyber warfare, modern submarines, and carrier-killer cruise missiles. In case the implications of these strategies are lost upon you, they will make a projection of force (offensive or defensive) by US carrier task forces into the far Pacific next to impossible in the near future. Defending our interests and those of our allies against the predations of an economically robust and bullying China is becoming increasingly problematic, and bears little resemblance to the dynamics of our trade over the years with Japan. How can you expect Chinese companies to start employing US workers, like Japan did, when a billion Chinese workers are willing to work for virtual slave wages?
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All winter I mentioned to my son that when he came for a visit, he should fly out and rent a large truck and take lots of stuff back with him. He had to drive one of those when he moved his things back to Arizona and it wasn't fun. It was January, cold and lots of snow and ice all the way. It's summer now, almost.
Does he listen to his mom? Not usually. I was hoping he would wait another month to come out until I was a little more rested and ready for the chores and clearing I was preparing to get done. Instead, they show up two days after I get back home from my trip visiting them driving the father-in-law's pickup truck. I was absolutely certain that everything I had for him to take home would not fit.
They came to work. Tools in the back taking up valuable space but they came in handy. I had a list of big and little jobs for getting this place inspection ready and for the future sale when that should need to happen.
They worked hard each day completing projects that I had asked to be done and many that popped up out of current need.
Because my daughter is now living in the room they usually slept in, we had to make adjustments. I gave them my queen bed and tried the air-mattress in the sewing room floor. Didn't do it for me so we tried to put it in the den and moved out the TV into the living room.
All the books had to be moved. I slept in there a night and it was slightly better. Mentioning it to my sister, she suggested we come get the full-size bed she wasn't using. After the hour drive to her house, the kids did a good job of getting it down her stairs, into her open bed truck, then set up in my den. I now have a guest room again. I slept very nicely the rest the two weeks they were here. We had a giant inside shuffle.
My son trimmed the shims under the master bedroom toilet and caulked it, replaced the flimsy skirting we had originally put around the new raised deck after the fire and hauled all the wood out from under the deck. It had to go. They pressure washed the old deck wood and cut it to fit in the truck. Then we went to the shed and got four large boxes of Dept 56 village pieces, several boxes of Christmas ornaments and trims, a space heater, pictures and knick knacks that would eventually be his anyway. He took books and anything else I could give him. If he didn't take it, I threatened it would be sold in the yard sale.
They also arranged several contractors to come look at my carport to see about repairing it. It's leaked since I moved in and I can't sell it like that. The main roof has to wait…indefinitely. It's not leaking yet.
They wouldn't let me pay them so I took them to my new favorite place for breakfast.
In SE Portland, Hawthorne street is an eclectic, artistic area where hippy and creative types hang out. They have great shopping and fun little restaurants. Not a chain to be seen. So, it was breakfast at Bread & Ink for all with my sister joining us. My sister and niece introduced me to this sweet, busy restaurant. Breakfast was my daughter's contribution because she was always at work. We love the atmosphere and the food. Here is the link to the history of this wonderful little place. They stand for an hour to get a table on weekends. https://www.southeastexaminer.com/2016/01/bread-and-ink-cafe/
Then came the stuffing of the truck. My DIL is quite skilled at fitting 40 pounds of stuff in a two-pound bag. Son took a large portion of what I had set out but there will be more. The truck needed to be a bit bigger.
How do you deal with the unexpected and are you good at stuffing?
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Frequently Asked Questions
Custom and personalized orders
Please review your order and make sure you have provided us with the information to sew your item. We need to know the last name initial for women as it goes in the middle and is larger. If the order is for a man, please tell us in the notes to seller as the last name initial is last and all letters are the same size.
We ship very quickly, changes to an order are not possible after an order is submitted. We may actually have your order in production in 10 minutes or less.
If you do not provide a font choice, we will sew the font that is in the picture of the listing. We will try to reach out to you via email. But we must have a response within 3 days.
Shipping charges are to one location only.
Sizing details
Specific sizing for all our clothing items is listed in the item itself under description. We also provide sizing charts when applicable. Once we monogram an item, it is not returnable.
Custom and personalized orders
Please make sure you give us all the info we need to sew the item. Review your order and make sure we have a name or initials, thread color and font selection. Not providing all the information will hold up your order. If you do not provide a font or thread color, we will use the font and thread in the picture of the item.
We need to know the order of the initials you provide. Please specify the last name initial. If we are unable to reach you via email in regards to the order of initials, we will sew in the order given. If the initials are DTP, we will assume the P is the last name and it will be placed in the middle and be made larger for a woman. Please review your order and make sure we have this information
Custom and personalized orders
We do not accept returns for used items or items that have been personalized unless we are able to determine that we monogrammed the item incorrectly according to the order. If we have monogrammed a defective item, we will replace it but we will not be able to change the monogram font or thread color
A defective item is one that comes to us in a defective manner, It is not a bag that has been ripped or torn due to too overloading the bag with too much stuff. At our sole discretion, we may request an item to be returned for a refund at the buyers expense. Defective items will be issued an RMA number and will need to be returned before we reship another item or issue a refund. We do not refund until the item is returned.
Custom and personalized orders
Size of Monogram
The size of the monogram of the items shown in the photos is approximate for the monogram. Short names will sew larger than a name with 9 letters. Our standard sew is approximately 2.5 x 5, which is standard monogram protocol, for a name unless the name has alot of characters, then it is smaller. There are thousands of combinations of fonts and letters. It is not possible to guarantee a sew size as it is dependent on the number of letters as well as the font and capitalization. This is all a function of the software and the length and height are dependent on each other. If we are given two names to sew, we generally reach out and ask if they can be stacked which allows us to sew larger.
Custom and personalized orders
We must now ship on the expected ship day. We can no longer hold an order waiting on a response to our emails in regards to your custom/personalized orders. We strive to offer excellent service and have over the last 7 years. Please check your Etsy mail as this is our only mode of communication on your custom/personalized order to make sure we are sewing what you asked for. We do have orders with no name or initials. no thread colors, no fonts. We want your order to be perfect, so we need your help on occasion. Thank you for helping us make your order perfect.
Reviews (5)
Sep 14, 2022
I love my new makeup bag!! I'm shocked at how fast it was shipped too.
Aug 20, 2022
Absolutely beautiful!! Fast turn around. I order on a Monday and got it that same Thursday. Will definitely buy again!
Jul 12, 2022
Love it fastest shipping!
Dec 25, 2020
Oct 29, 2017